Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Sgier
Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE Click on images either for links for screenshots. Interesting also for the future when we hopefully have addons. So you could get an impression and then decide to visit the link or not.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Michael Sgier
Hi Curt are you, or someone else, working on integrating the new apt.dat format as of x-plane 9? --- On Sat, 3/20/10, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote: From: Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial To: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:08:47 Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE Click on images either for links for screenshots. Interesting also for the future when we hopefully have addons. So you could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] use const char* for dlerror

2010-03-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Csaba Halász wrote: This fixes compilation error for non-bsd systems that happen to return const char* from dlerror(). No reason not to, since const char* is assignable from char*. It's committed, thanks. Erik --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: visible. Now I think I managed to get it right with 3d objects. See : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-city-relief-4.jpg Even more impressive! Erik -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-23 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: visible. Now I think I managed to get it right with 3d objects. See : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-city-relief-4.jpg Even more impressive! There's just one thing, the wrong side of the buildings seem to be lit with this update? Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Erik Hofman a écrit : Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: visible. Now I think I managed to get it right with 3d objects. See : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-city-relief-4.jpg Even more impressive! There's just one thing, the wrong side of the buildings seem to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Elevator control loading

2010-03-23 Thread willie
Possibly its better and easier with a big servo motor setup but while i have seen many posts in sim builder forums about testing different types of motor, I have not seen an example of a motor that really fits the bill. Possibly we can compare notes on a separate email as this hardware

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Elevator control loading

2010-03-23 Thread Alan Teeder
Back in the 60´s and 70´s we found that bungee rubber gave better feel than steel springs when we made simple (i.e. non-hydraulic) feel units from time to time for our research simulator. I also built a few hydraulic systems, but these need lots of safety devices to protect the pilot from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-23 Thread David Megginson
Looks fantastic! David On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Erik Hofman e...@ehofman.com wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: visible. Now I think I managed to get it right with 3d objects. See : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-city-relief-4.jpg Even more impressive! Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Elevator control loading

2010-03-23 Thread Harry Campigli
Ok Wille and Allan For pix of works in progress, if you go to http://www.bali-gold.com/Avionics/index.php Then to the sim two directory, I have put in some new pix with comments on them of the rudder setup and the unit i am building up right now which will be for the ailerons. This design is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Michael Sgier wrote: Hi Curt are you, or someone else, working on integrating the new apt.dat format as of x-plane 9? A few of us have been in correspondence with Ben Supnik from time to time, but as far as I know, no one within FlightGear has tackled the new

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Michael Sgier wrote: Hi Curt are you, or someone else, working on integrating the new apt.dat format as of x-plane 9? A few of us have been in correspondence with Ben Supnik from time to time, but as far as I know,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Curtis Olson -- Tuesday 23 March 2010: A few of us have been in correspondence with Ben Supnik from time to time, but as far as I know, no one within FlightGear has tackled the new x-plane 9 apt and navaid data formats. The parts of the new format that I have designed (with some input from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Michael Sgier wrote: are you, or someone else, working on integrating the new apt.dat format as of x-plane 9? A few of us have been in correspondence with Ben Supnik from time to time, but as far as I know, no one within FlightGear has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Martin Spott
Gene Buckle wrote: Is the 850 spec considered the new apt.dat format? Yup, at least it's the most recent public spec. See: http://data.x-plane.com/designers.html#Formats Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Elevator control loading

2010-03-23 Thread castle
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:03 -0700, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone shed some light on the following question? Does JSBSim calculate elevator position and control hinge moments based on the general equation of motion, including inertial coupling, is described by Etkin( 1982 ),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE I hate websites that consists only of flash content. In fact I've added a flash blocker because of that.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug: nav[12] selected radial

2010-03-23 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Martin Spott wrote: Gene Buckle wrote: Is the 850 spec considered the new apt.dat format? Yup, at least it's the most recent public spec. See: http://data.x-plane.com/designers.html#Formats Thanks Martin, that's what I thought. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Gary Neely
I have to support Ron and others on this-- I much prefer usability and speed of access over visual gimmicks, especially Flash-based content navigation. -Gary aka Buckaroo On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ron Jensen w...@jentronics.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Olivier JACQ
In France we use SPIP a lot : http://www.spip.net/rubrique25.html It a simple open source PHP/MySQL web publishing-focused CMS. See http://www.spip.net/en_article2009.html for some web examples. The fact is : the webmaster just has to know HTML/CSS + design, and integrate the SPIP routines in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread willie
Ron Jensen wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: Michael Sgier wrote: Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE I hate websites that consists only of flash content. In fact I've added a flash blocker

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread HB-GRAL
willie schrieb: +1 to that, brother There are many excellent sites out there using simple html and intelligent CSS. I don't see why we can't be one of them. Keep it simple and fast. 1+ to the whole usability and design consortium here. When you read the whole thread you see that this is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Geoff McLane
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 19:20 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote: willie schrieb: +1 to that, brother There are many excellent sites out there using simple html and intelligent CSS. I don't see why we can't be one of them. Keep it simple and fast. 1+ to the whole usability and design consortium

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
There does not seem any need to go totally Googly when all that Pete has done can be done to the current site, in an incremental page-by-page way... Am I missing something here? Can I clear something up here once and for all re the fg-www.appspot.com site 1) The site is presently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread HB-GRAL
Geoff McLane schrieb: But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 I have added a little more today... http://geoffair.net/fg/site including a bottom TOC - presently not quite the same as the left, but it will be... Geoff, I am actually not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Make relief map go up instead of down? (was Re: Shaders experiments)

2010-03-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- Frederic Bouviera écrit : - Erik Hofman a écrit : Erik Hofman wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: visible. Now I think I managed to get it right with 3d objects. See : http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs-city-relief-4.jpg Even more impressive! There's just one

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 Can I suggest a way forward as we are probably replicating work... 1) create a branch of the cvs website in git. (maybe on gitorious/fg) 2) give commit rights to whoever gonna contribute 3) design the